Lightsey Darst describes Black Label Movement’s “Visceral” concert as intensely physical, with dark psychological undertones — mesmerizing and exhausting.

This installment of YOU ARE HEAR, hosted by writer/comedian Brian Beatty, features two new stories, about what love leaves behind and superheroes shilling for cereal, by John Jodzio and the comedy duo Pommelhorse.

Miranda Trimmier’s article “The Wary Feminist” concerned her experience in a discussion put together by mnartists.org and the Walker around the Lynn Hershman Leeson documentary !Women Art Revolution (!WAR).

Talking to Mariusz Olszewski is like opening the door to a very crammed closet. Ask one question and everything comes tumbling out: ballroom dance, cultural anthropology, anecdotes about Martha Graham, philosophy…

Just between you and me, I have an aversion to suburbs — a strong one. I try not to make a big thing about it, and I don’t want to offend anyone (learned that one the hard way!), but I do find myself going to great lengths to avoid them.

Where to begin? With a body in space. The body breathes; it’s flexible, beautiful. But it has a thorn or splinter, an abscess or excess, that makes it rise and writhe in light.

IF THE NEW YEAR’S FESTIVITIES ARE OVER, THE CHAMPAGNE IS FLAT and the chill has set in, then it must be time for Out There, the Walker Art Center’s twenty-three-year old January festival of the emerging, the risky, and bizarre in performance. The name’s always amused me. I picture a committee spinning their pencils, debating the merits of Weeks of Wackiness and Weird!! before settling on Out There…

AS A LONGTIME BOOKSELLER, DESIGNER, AND LOVER OF ALL KINDS OF PRINT, I always swore I’d never own an e-reader (not counting a couple of times I wavered while hauling yet another box of books in yet another move). But times and technology, storage space and reading habits change, and just before embarking on a few months of frequent business travel, I finally succumbed to the allure of electronic…

LAKE SUPERIOR, ONE OF THE LARGEST LAKES IN THE WORLD, DOMINATES thousands of miles in not one, but two countries, creates its own climate, and nurtures and kills daily. But today, in the age of lakefront condos, virtual landscapes, and tweets about Republican presidential candidates, the Great Lake’s power is easily overlooked.  I confess: I myself tend to the lake for granted. But Duluth author…